Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newbliss
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated in planting
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.15215, -7.15051
- SMR number
- MO017-073----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a small W-E spur towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and within view of the site of Newbliss House, which is c. 440m to the NE. A circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) is depicted on the line of the straight W perimeter of a D-shaped wood (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 80m E-W) on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at ENE: Wth of base 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) that survives best N-E-S, and traces of an outer fosse of drain (at ENE: Wth 1.3m; D 0.2m). An entrance is not identified and old tree stumps are present. It was adapted as a tree ring, but it was probably a rath originally.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.